I fear there are too many areas that are still limited by *dsl technology so trying to define a certain minimum for upstream transmission rates is problematic. (Also a pet peave of mine since it makes moving video and audio project files areound a PITA.)
Personally, I think we're probably best sticking with the current figures until what is widely available as a top end service begins to reflect different figures and I don't see that that has happened yet. -Wayne On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 08:29:08PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: > > What should be the new minimum speed for "broadband" in the U.S.? > > > This is the list of past minimum broadband speed definitions by year > > year speed > > 1999 200 kbps in both directions (this was chosen as faster than > dialup/ISDN speeds) > > 2000 200 kbps in at least one direction (changed because too many service > providers had 128 kbps upload) > > 2010 4 mbps down / 1 mbps up > > 2015 25 Mbps down / 3 Mbps up (wired) > 5 Mbps down / 1 Mbps up (wireless) > > 2021 ??? / ??? (some Senators propose 100/100 mbps) > > Not only in major cities, but also rural areas > > Note, the official broadband definition only means service providers can't > advertise it as "broadband" or qualify for subsidies; not that they must > deliver better service. --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/
